📖 What I’m Reading:

​We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It – The New Atlantis​

• Tough one. I go back and forth. Yes, we benefit from many hidden systems that are indeed miraculous. Clean water, abundant food, etc. But there are still a lot of people struggling, and abundance, as we’re learning, causes its own problems. But I generally agree with this author’s outlook. We would do well to recognize this stuff more. This is the first in a series of essays on boring miracles.

​50 Years of Travel Tips – Kevin Kelly​

• Good stuff. Some counterintuitive tips. E.g., rather than acclimating slowly, go first to the most remote and extreme point of your destination and work back to the city center.

​Collect Physical Media – Adam Karaoguz​

• Physical books are better.

Book finished: The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd: 4/5

• Ex-McKinsey consultant writes about finding his own way in work and life. Does a good job of reframing some big questions. Pretty easy read, and a nudge in the right direction.

I also finished my notes from the FDR book I read last month.

☝️ Word of the Week:

peregrinate (v) PER-uh-gruh-nayt

To travel, especially to wander from place to place.

From Latin peregrinus (foreigner), from per- (through) + ager (land).

“All my traveling life, 40 years of peregrinating Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania, I have thought constantly of home – and especially of the America I had never seen.”

💬 Quote of the Week:

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

-C.S. Lewis

🎵 Jams of the Month:

The calm grooves of Maribou State’s new album​

• ​Peace Talk (Spotify) (YouTube)
• ​Blackoak (Spotify) – bassline rules

The cinematic, anonymous mystery of Sleep Token​

• ​Rain (Spotify) – drums at 1:25 rock
• ​The Night Does Not Belong To God (Spotify) – polyrhythm at 2:05 🤌

The ignorant fun of 10,000 gecs (Spotify)

The satisfying, quiet harmonies in this IG reel​

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ps: I still can’t believe a whole plane did a fart and fall down and no one died (X)

pps: this blind pianist figures out this song’s key and melody within two measures (0:51). I wish I had perfect pitch. (YouTube)